Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan met at Harvard, began dating while they were students, and married in May 2012 after about nine years together. Their later public story has included raising a family and co-leading the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), which they announced in 2015.
How Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan met
A 2010 New Yorker profile reported that Zuckerberg met Chan at a Friday-night party at Harvard fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi while he was a sophomore. They started talking while waiting in line for the bathroom. Chan later remembered his nerdy humor and a beer glass printed with a C++ reference. The profile does not give the date of the party, so the exact day they met is not established. Read the New Yorker profile.
When they started dating
The Harvard Crimson reported in May 2012 that the couple had dated for nine years before marrying. That places the start of their relationship approximately in 2003, but the reported duration is not an exact start date. The Harvard Crimson’s 2012 wedding report.
In a 2019 CBS interview, they recalled that their first date nearly did not lead to a second. Zuckerberg said he had a take-home midterm but would rather spend time with Chan. That is their later recollection of the date, not a contemporaneous record of when it happened. Read the CBS interview.
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When Zuckerberg and Chan married
They married in May 2012, the day after Facebook’s public offering, according to the Harvard Crimson’s report at the time. The newspaper described the wedding as a surprise gathering at their home. The Harvard Crimson’s account.
Family and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
In 2015, the couple’s first daughter, Max, was born within days of their announcement of CZI, according to the organization’s 2018 annual letter. Their first-daughter letter also described a plan to give 99% of their Meta shares—then Facebook shares—to support their stated goals. The figure describes a stated plan, not proof that all of those shares were transferred at the time. Read CZI’s 2018 annual letter and browse CZI’s letter archive.
CZI’s 2018 letter names Max and their daughter August. A 2019 CBS interview discussed how the couple approached chores, bringing their daughters to work, and setting aside weekly date nights without work talk. Those sources describe their family and routines at that time; they are not a complete current family roster.
How they describe working and living together
In the 2019 CBS interview, Chan described the care they take over when to discuss their shared work at home: “We care deeply about our work. And so we don’t leave it at the door. But we are super careful about thinking about, ‘Is this the moment to talk about it?’” The comment reflects how they described balancing work and home life in that interview, published December 3, 2019. CBS News interview.
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CZI’s leadership page identifies Chan and Zuckerberg as co-founders and co-CEOs. It describes Chan as a pediatrician and Zuckerberg as Meta’s founder and CEO. Organizational titles can change; see CZI’s leadership page for its current listing.
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